Getting Better Acquainted

In GBA 216 we get better acquainted with Tiernan Douieb. He talks making comedy for kids and adults, checking his privilege, the landscape of TV comedy, making politics funny, Arts Emergency and more.

Tiernan plugs:

This Isn't For You: http://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/

2.30pm - PBH Free Fringe - Liquid Room Annex - The World is Full of Idiots Let's Live in Space: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/tiernan-douieb-the-world-s-full-of-idiots-let-s-live-in-space

@TiernanDouieb: https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb

I plug:

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/

http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/

http://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

We mention:

Caimh McDonnell: http://whitehairedirishman.com/

March Against Austerity: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/21/protest-march-austerity-london-russell-brand-peoples-assembly

Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/

The Moth: http://themoth.org/

Louis CK: https://louisck.net/

Louis CK Moth Acceptance Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1iXJPFnFyA

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Natural Born Storytellers: http://www.naturalbornstorytellers.com/

Truth Be Told: Pilot on 26th August: https://twitter.com/truthbetold_bbc

Sarah Benetto - Storytellers Club: https://www.facebook.com/StoryClub

Eddie Brimsom: http://www.eddybrimson.com/

Craig Campbell: http://www.avalonuk.com/artists/view/14

Comedian's Comedian Podcast: http://www.comedianscomedian.com/

Alexei Sayle: http://www.alexeisayle.me/

Jo Brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand

Harry Enfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Enfield

Eddie Izzard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard

Jack Dee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dee

Comedy Club 4 Kids: http://www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk/

Bec Hill: http://www.bechillcomedian.com/

Bec Hill GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-105-bec-hill

Bec and Tom's Awesome Laundry: http://www.becandtom.com/

Tom Allen: http://www.tomindeed.com/

Andrew O'Neill: http://www.andrewoneill.co.uk/

Nick Doody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Doody

Howard Read: http://www.howardread.com/

James Acaster: http://www.jamesacaster.com/

Nish Kumar: http://www.nishkumar.co.uk/

Ben Hilton: http://www.mrbenhilton.com/

VHX: https://www.vhx.tv/

Greg Proops: http://www.gregproops.com/

Aziz Ansari: http://azizansari.com/

Dan Harmon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Harmon

Harmontown: http://live.harmontown.com/

Russell Howard's Good News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00phwkz

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight

Partly Political Broadcast: http://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/shows_partlypolitical.php

Josie Long: http://www.josielong.com/

Chris Coltrane: http://www.chriscoltrane.co.uk/

Joe Wells: http://www.joewells.org.uk/

Charlie Brooker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brooker

Frankie Boyle: http://www.frankieboyle.com/

Frankie Boyle's Election Autopsy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qs82x

Mock the Week: http://www.mocktheweek.tv/

FB's Guardian articles: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/frankie-boyle

Daily Show: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/

Stephen Colbert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert

Jon Stewert on Charleston shooting: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/daily-shows-jon-stewart-on-charleston-shooting-this-was-a-terrorist-attack

Lolitics: http://www.chriscoltrane.co.uk/lolitics-my-camden-political-comedy-club.html

Andy Zaltzman: http://satiristforhire.com/

Lampoon Apathy: http://www.lampoonapathy.com/

Election Giggle: https://www.facebook.com/events/769185533174803/?ref=5

Thom Tuck: http://turlygod.com/

Tim Fitzhigham: http://www.fitzhigham.com/

Y: The Last Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man

Preacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)

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In GBA 215 we get better acquainted with Cameryn Moore. She talks about her shows Phone Whore, Smut Slam Caberet and Slut (R)evolution, the ethics around making art about difficult subjects; responsibility, accountability and authenticity, balancing doing phone sex work and being a touring artist, fat acceptance, authentic sexuality, "bigot comedy bingo" and more.

Cameryn plugs:

Phone Whore and Slut (r)evolution at the Buxton Fringe: http://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/descriptions2015.html

Phone Whore at the Manchester Fringe: http://www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/

Dundee - Phone Whore: http://www.camerynmoore.com/current-tour/

Phone Wore, Slut (R)evolution and Smut Slam Caberet at the Edinburgh Fringe: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/phone-whore-a-one-act-play-with-frequent-interruptions

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/slut-r-evolution-no-one-gets-there-overnight

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/smut-slam-cabaret-where-sexy-and-storytelling-collide

Website: http://www.camerynmoore.com/

I plug:

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/

http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/

http://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

We mention:

Adrian: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-162-adrian

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Natural Born Storytellers: http://www.naturalbornstorytellers.com/

Smut Stand: http://www.camerynmoore.com/sidewalk-smut/

Heather McAllister: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_MacAllister_(activist)

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In GBA 214 we get better acquainted with Paul. He talks about drawing portraits for Arts Emergency, his experience of bipolar, how he relates to the idea of being an artist, growing up in Stafford and lots more.

Paul plugs:

Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/

@PaulWilliamsArt: https://twitter.com/paulwilliamsart

I plug:

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/

http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

We mention:

Avatars: http://www.arts-emergency.org/aobn-portraits-paul-williams/

Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)

Stephen Fry - Secret Life of a Manic Depressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry:_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Manic_Depressive

Nine Inch Nails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails

Pink Floyd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd

The Wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall

The Wall Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Wall

Gerard Scarfe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Scarfe

Lord of the Flies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies_(1963_film)

Terrence McKenna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

Timothy Leary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

Josie Long: http://www.josielong.com/

Neil Griffiths: https://twitter.com/_griff

Housmans: http://www.housmans.com/

McMillan's: http://www.macmillan.org.uk/

Fedora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora

MRA's: http://mic.com/articles/90131/the-8-biggest-lies-men-s-rights-activists-spread-about-women

Tiernan Doueib: http://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

Tragic Christmas: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas

Arts Emergency at BAFTA: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a646595/jessica-hynes-has-a-powerful-anti-cuts-message-in-baftas-speech.html#~pgvS61e78kY0TN

200AD: http://www.2000adonline.com/

Zenith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_(comics)

Ballad of Halo Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Halo_Jones

Alan Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Alan_Moore

Watchmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen

Mazeworld Arthur Ranson: http://www.arthurranson.com/content/mazeworld

Proportional Representation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

XTube: http://www.xtube.com/

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In GBA 213 we get better acquainted with Bisha. We talk about feeling like frauds, the prison industrial complex and restorative justice, kindness, empathy, hierarchical systems, turning difficult subjects into comedy, insecurity, creativity, privilege and so much more.

Bisha plugs:

The Turtle Bookclub: http://www.turtlebookclub.com/

Bisha website: http://www.bishakali.com/

Bisha fringe show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/bisha-k-ali-ridiculous

Bisha twitter: https://twitter.com/bishakali

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

What About the Men: http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/

http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/

We mention:

Tamer Kattan: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-13-tamer-kattan

bell hooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

Restorative Justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Restorative_justice

Angela Davis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

Anarchist Book Fair: http://www.anarchistbookfair.org.uk/

Gift Economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

Universal Basic Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

Johann Hari on Little Atoms: http://www.littleatoms.com/podcast/johann-hari-chasing-scream

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis: http://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf

Niels Bohr: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Niels_Bohr

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/821936.Niels_Bohr

George Carlin: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=George_Carlin

How to Explain White Priviledge to a Broke White Person: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-crosleycorcoran/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255.html

Billy Bragg: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Billy_Bragg

Comic Relief: http://www.comicrelief.com/

Bob Geldof: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bob_Geldof

Lenny Henry: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lenny_Henry

Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

Majid Nawaaz - Quilliam: http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about/staff/maajid-nawaz/

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In GBA 212 we get better acquainted with Ian. He talks about finding growing up and looking back, accidentally getting into computing, playing chess against adults as a boy, and we chart his experience of living for over a decade as someone with a long term illness, how ME was for him and his journey of recovery.

Ian plugs:

Believing ME sufferers when they express their experiences.

ME Story: http://sparklondon.libsyn.com/me-story-ian-barratt

I plug:

Spark Bristol: http://www.sparkbristol.org.uk/

Spark Preston: http://www.sparkpreston.org.uk/

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Radio 4 Pilot: https://www.facebook.com/events/1432959260340325/

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

What About the Men: http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: https://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/

We mention:

Louise: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-louise-episodes-1

Four Days in a Room: https://soundcloud.com/fourdaysinaroom

In the Dark: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/

Thatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

Douglas Rushkoff: http://www.rushkoff.com/

Program or be programmed: http://www.rushkoff.com/program-or-be-programmed/

Sutton Coldfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Coldfield

Birmingham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham

Garry Kasparov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov

Nigel Short: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Short

Glandular Fever: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Glandular-fever/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Chronic-fatigue-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx

CBT: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cognitive-behavioural-therapy/pages/introduction.aspx

St Bartholomew’s Hospital: http://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/st-bartholomew%E2%80%99s-hospital/

Kafka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka

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In GBA 211 we get better acquainted with Lizanne. She talks van driving, assembly lines, office jobs, corporate catering, what it's like being a woman working in male dominated industries, her love of cars, vans and other driving machines and turning her life and thoughts into stories and comedy.

Lizanne plugs:

YouTube/ Shepherd1964

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizanne_davies

I plug:

Tragic Summer: http://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/

Spark Hackney Open Mic: Head/Heart: https://www.facebook.com/events/455504937947384/

We mention:

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

HGV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_goods_vehicle

Fiant Mutipla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Multipla

Ford Motor-company Dagenham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Dagenham

West Ham: http://www.whufc.com/

Lewis Hamilton: http://www.lewishamilton.com/

Formula 1: https://www.formula1.com/

The Goodies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goodies

Monty Python: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python

Dave Allen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Allen_%28comedian%29

Jasper Carrot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Carrott

Two Ronnies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Ronnies

Aston Martin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin

Jo Brand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand

Lee Hearst / Backyard: http://www.leehurst.com/

Harry Hill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hill

Bill Bailey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bailey

Rhythm Factory: http://www.rhythmfactory.co.uk/

Mslexia: https://mslexia.co.uk/

NHS Direct: http://www.nhs.uk/nhs-direct/pages/nhs-direct-legacy-enquiries.aspx

DVLA: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency

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In GBA 210 we get better acquainted with Stephen. As we sit on London Fields in the sunshine he tells me about growing up: childhood in Middlesborough, early adulthood in Uganda and London, working in the mental health system, losing anger and finding perspective.

The conversation features stories of risk taking, danger, violence and car crashes told openly and with humour.

Content Note: Mental Heath, Fighting, Discription of an animals violent death

Stephen doesn't plug anything.

I plug:

What About the Men: https://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

The #ManSurvey: http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

Tragic Summer: http://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/

And Tragic Spring on the Stand Up Tragedy podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

We mention:

London Fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fields

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

PTSD: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/pages/introduction.aspx

H Rider Haggard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard

Joseph Conrad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad

Whitby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby

Scarborough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough,_North_Yorkshire

Cuban Heals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_heel

Carrie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_%281976_film%29

Diagram: http://platformthing.com/2014/06/11/this-is-why-editing-your-own-work-is-problematic/

Kafka:

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In GBA 209 we get better acquainted with Juliet Jacques. She talks about football, comment and opinion journalism, the differences and tensions between writing non fiction and writing fiction, marginal art and voices, the material reality of being a writer and so much more.

Juliet plugs:

Her memoir Trans will be out on 22nd September: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1975-trans

At Home She's A Tourist: http://julietjacques.blogspot.co.uk/

I plug:

Tragic Summer: www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/

And Tragic Spring on the Stand Up Tragedy podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

We mention:

Hattie Jacques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Jacques

Steve Cross: https://twitter.com/steve_x

Dawn Foster: https://twitter.com/dawnhfoster

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-206-dawn-foster

Alice Bell: https://twitter.com/alicebell

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-115-alice-bell

David Peace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Peace

Belle and Sebastian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_and_Sebastian

The Smiths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths

The Guardian: A Transgender Journey http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/transgender-journey

Hillsborough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

Luton / Millwall Riot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Kenilworth_Road_riot

Review of Anna Krien's Night Games : http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/01/journey-dark-heart-sport-anna-kriens-night-games

Hollis Frampton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Frampton

Goodbye to the NHS: a personal story of a public service: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/09/goodbye-nhs-personal-story-public-service

On the “dispute” between radical feminism and trans people: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/08/dispute-between-radical-feminism-and-trans-people

Writers of Colour: http://mediadiversified.org/

Manifesto for Confessional Journalism: http://thenewinquiry.com/features/manifesto-for-confessional-journalism/

Brixton East Art Gallery: http://www.brixtoneast.co.uk/

White Review - Lars Iyer manfesto: http://www.thewhitereview.org/features/nude-in-your-hot-tub-facing-the-abyss-a-literary-manifesto-after-the-end-of-literature-and-manifestos/

200th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba200

Huw Lemmey: https://twitter.com/spitzenprodukte

Reasons why your landlord is awesome: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dclg/is-your-landlord-actually-incredible-mu2w

My comment is free piece: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity

Reflections on Villaplane: http://www.berfrois.com/2014/09/reflections-on-villaplane-juliet-jacques/

Skunk Anansie: Yes it's fucking political: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcaUer4fuU8

Liz Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Jones

A Week of Goodbyes: http://davepickeringblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-week-of-goodbyes.html

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhEBCWMe44

"Masculinity": http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/26/transgender-juliet-jacques-masculinity-football

Travels of a transsexual football fan: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2013/11/travels-transsexual-football-fan

Verso Books: http://www.versobooks.com/

Gang of Four: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_%28band%29

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In GBA 208 we get better acquainted with Jude Cowan Montague. She talks about her show The News Agents on Resonance FM, turning the Reuters newsfeeds into art, improvised singing and the relationship between journalism and the arts.

Jude plugs:

The Leidenfrost Effect: http://folkwit.com/artists/jude-cowan-and-wim-oudijk

The News Agents on Resonance FM - 2.30-3.30 Saturday: http://resonancefm.com/listen

And on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/the-news-agents/

Her website: http://www.judecowanmontague.com/

I plug:

Tragic Summer: http://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/

And Tragic Spring on the Stand Up Tragedy podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

We mention:

Richard Tyrone Jones: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-tyrone-jones

Resonance FM: http://resonancefm.com/

GBA on Resonance: https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/sets/getting-better-acquainted

Rosie Wilby: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-10-rosie-wilby

Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/

ITN: http://www.itn.co.uk/

For the Messangers: http://judecowan.net/

Iain Overton / Action on Armed Violence: https://aoav.org.uk/staff/iain-overton/

Jo Thomas: http://www.jothomas.me/

Pink Guns on Iain Overton's blog: http://www.gunbabygun.com/gun-baby-gun/women-show-off-pink-guns-on-social-media-sites/

Paxman

New Agents Manifesto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Paxman

Candle dancing story: http://www.itnsource.com/jp/shotlist/RTV/2007/01/05/RTV22707/?v=1

" A, I" (All India Radio): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Radio

Agnès Varda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Varda

French New Wave: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave

Associated Press: http://www.ap.org/

My dad: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes

Grierson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grierson

BFI: http://www.bfi.org.uk/

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Jimmy Saville: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile

Bermunda Triangle Test Engineers: http://btttb.blogspot.co.uk/

Melanie Clifford: http://melanieclifford.net/

Howard Jacques: https://twitter.com/howardjacques1

Sumatera_Barat: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatera_Barat

The Leidenfrost Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect

Wim Oudijk: https://soundcloud.com/wim-oudijk

Polydor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydor_Records

Native Instruments: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/

BBC Radio Shropshire - Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folkhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7lt

Disco Fair / Burt Coops: http://www.discofair.nl/

Royal Society of Printmakers: http://www.re-printmakers.com/

Billie Holiday: http://www.billieholiday.com/

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In GBA 207 we get better acquainted with Simon. He talks about dealing with the death of both his parents at a young age and how that, and the lives and values his parents had, has shaped his own life and world view. It's a conversation about bereavement, life, mental health and perspectives but most of all it's a conversation about stories, about the narratives and fictions we create and refine.

Simon doesn't really plug anything.

I plug Tragic Summer: https://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/ and the Stand Up Tragedy podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

We mention:

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Risk! Live from London: http://risk-show.com/podcast/3177/

Kevin Allison: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-90-kevin-allison

After Effects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_After_Effects

Charlie Hebdo: http://mediadiversified.org/2015/01/10/hatred-breeds-hatred-charlie-hebdo-marginalisation-and-terrorism/

Tony Judt - Post War Europe: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Postwar-History-Europe-Since-1945/dp/009954203X

Rosa Parks: http://mediadiversified.org/2014/04/11/no-alibis-educating-children-about-racism/

MLK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Mark Cousins: https://twitter.com/markcousinsfilm

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

Bill Hicks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

Joris Luyendijk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris_Luyendijk

Niels Bohr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

Schrödinger's cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

Micheal Frayn - Copenhagen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_%28play%29

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